Poison-Making is a crafting skill that focuses primarily on mixing deadly substances that the character can apply to melee weapons, inflicting extra damage and often impairing enemy activity. Those skilled in this art can also create explosive items designed to be hurled at the enemy. As with Herbalism and Trap-Making, creating items using this skill requires a recipe and raw ingredients. All rogues start with one rank in this skill.
One poison and one coating can be applied to a weapon at any time; using either on a weapon already buffed by the same type will overwrite the corresponding buff. Both poisons and coatings stack with Flaming, Frost, or Telekinetic Weapons.
The first rank of this skill is required to use (i.e. apply or throw) any Poison or Grenade. Additionally, bows and crossbows do not benefit from poisons or coatings.
Tiers
| Poison-Making
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The character has survived the difficult learning process of making simple poisons and grenades. | ||
| Improved Poison-Making
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The character can now create deadly second-tier poisons and grenades. | ||
| Expert Poison-Making
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The character has learned exotic new techniques for making poisons and grenades up to the third level of potency. | ||
| Master Poison-Making
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The character is an elite poisoner, able to create fourth-tier poisons and grenades. |
Locations for unlimited supplies
The following vendors sell unlimited supplies of important poison-making ingredients.
- Concentrator Agent: Bartender in the Gnawed Noble Tavern in Denerim Market District and Bodahn Feddic at your Party Camp
- Corrupter Agent: Bodahn Feddic at your Party Camp
- Deathroot: Varathorn at the Dalish Camp (if you side with werewolves he will be unavailable)
- Deep Mushroom: Ruck in Ruck's Cave in the Ortan Thaig area of The Deep Roads (if you kill him his stock will be unavailable)
- Distillation Agent: Bartender in the Gnawed Noble Tavern in Denerim Market District and Bodahn Feddic at your Party Camp
- Flasks: Bartender in the Gnawed Noble Tavern in Denerim Market District, Innkeeper at The Spoiled Princess, Figor in Figor's Imports in Orzammar (you must scare off the Carta thugs first), and Bodahn Feddic at your Party Camp
- Lifestone: Ruck in Ruck's Cave in the Ortan Thaig area of The Deep Roads (if you kill him his stock will be unavailable)
- Lyrium Dust: Quartermaster in the Circle Tower
- Toxin Extract: Varathorn at the Dalish Camp (if you side with werewolves he will be unavailable)
Poisons
- See Poison-Making recipes for detailed information.
(Note: Each poison remains applied to a weapon for 60 seconds)
| Tier One Poisons | Damage per hit | Effect |
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| Deathroot Extract | 1 nature | 10% chance of stun for 3 seconds |
| Venom | 1 nature | 10% chance of -40 movement speed for 11 seconds |
| Tier Two Poisons | Damage per hit | Effect |
| Concentrated Deathroot Extract | 2 nature | 15% chance of stun for 4 seconds |
| Concentrated Venom | 2 nature | 15% chance of -40 movement speed for 12 seconds |
| Crow Poison | 3 nature | 10% chance of stun for 6 seconds |
| Tier Three Poisons | Damage per hit | Effect |
| Acidic Coating | 2 nature | |
| Adder's Kiss | 3 nature | 20% chance of -40 movement speed for 13 seconds |
| Concentrated Crow Poison | 6 nature | 15% chance of stun for 7 seconds |
| Demonic Poison | 5 spirit | |
| Flame Coating | 2 fire | |
| Fleshrot | 3 nature | 20% chance of -40 movement speed for 13 seconds |
| Freezing Coating | 2 frost | |
| Magebane | 5 mana drain | |
| Shock Coating | 3 electricity | |
| Soldier's Bane | 5 stamina drain | |
| Soulrot Coating | 2 spirit | |
| Tier Four Poisons | Damage per hit | Effect |
| Concentrated Demonic Poison | 10 spirit | |
| Concentrated Magebane | 10 mana drain | |
| Concentrated Soldier's Bane | 10 stamina drain | |
| Quiet Death | 10 nature | 55% chance to instantly kill non-elite target at equal to or less than 20% total health |
Grenades
- See Poison-Making recipes for detailed information.
Grenades are 'Area of Effect' weapons, so friendly fire settings apply. Note that the second tier of the Stealth talent allows a Rogue to toss grenades at will (because they count as items, and therefore do not break stealth). Grenade damage does not increase beyond its third-tier value of 78.
| Damage Pier Tier | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 |
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| Acid Flask | 26 nature | 52 nature | 78 nature | 78 nature |
| Fire Bomb | 26 fire | 52 fire | 78 fire | 78 fire |
| Freeze Bomb | 26 frost | 52 frost | 78 frost | 78 frost |
| Shock Bomb | 26 electricity | 52 electricity | 78 electricity | 78 electricity |
| Soulrot Bomb | 26 spirit | 52 spirit | 78 spirit | 78 spirit |
Quests requiring Poison-Making
- A Poisonous Proposition
- Crime Wave (possibly)